The Australian Human Rights Institute has expanded its work on climate change and human rights to include a new project focusing on greenhouse gas emissions from Australia’s huge gas and coal exports.
This research aims to utilise air pollution data in order to improve the health outcomes of Pacific communities. The data will support government partnerships with multilateral agencies and universities that will improve air quality through investment in renewable energy.
In 2021, the Institute co-convened an international conference which called on global governments to take urgent steps that recognise the link between the increasing burden on under-resourced public health systems, the exploitation of the natural world and altered climatic conditions.
Emeritus Professor Andrea Durbach and Professor Sofia Gruskin look at the health and human rights impacts of climate change, and how treating it like a disease may help encourage solutions.
